St. Peter's
Gaelic: Baile Pheadair | |
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| Nickname(s): Gateway to the Bras d'Or The Village on the Canal Where the Ocean meets the Inland Sea | |
  St. Peter's Location of St Peter's  St. Peter's St. Peter's (Canada) | |
| Coordinates: 45°39′52″N 60°52′33″W / 45.664555°N 60.875744°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Nova Scotia |
| Municipality | Richmond County |
| Founded | 1650 |
| Government | |
| • Village Chair | Esther McDonnell |
| • Village Committee | Commissioners of St. Peter's |
| Area | |
| • Total | 346.8 km2 (133.9 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 38 m (125 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 2,634 |
| • Density | 7.6/km2 (20/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
| Postal code span | B0E 3B0 |
| Area code | 902 |
| Telephone Exchange | 535, 785 |
| Website | visitstpeters.com |
St. Peter's (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Pheadair; formerly known as "Santo Pedro", "Saint-Pierre", "Port Toulouse", and "St. Peters") is a small incorporated village located on Cape Breton Island in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
This village is located on a narrow isthmus which separates the southern end of Bras d'Or Lake, known as St. Peter's Inlet, to the north from St. Peter's Bay on the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The isthmus is crossed by the St. Peters Canal which is almost exclusively used by pleasure boats in recent decades.
It is home to Battery Provincial Park. This park is situated on a hillside overlooking St. Peter's Bay adjacent to the St. Peter's Canal National Historic Site. Its entrance is on the east side of the bridge at the canal. Battery features a small saltwater beach (unsupervised), an interpretive display, picnic area with ocean frontage, and 3 kilometres /1.8 miles of hiking trails.[1]
St. Peter's is also located on Trunk 4, one of the province's trunk or secondary highways. An expressway, Highway 104, is scheduled to be extended from its present terminus several kilometres west of St. Peter's to Sydney. When this occurs, Highway 104 will carry the Trans-Canada Highway designation on Cape Breton Island, for which Highway 105 is now designated. [citation needed]
The Nicolas Denys Museum is located in the village, but is only open in the summer. St. Peter's used to be served by a Canadian National Railways branch line which was abandoned in the early 1980s.
- ^ "Battery Provincial Park". novascotia.com. Retrieved 19 April 2018.